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Monday, 20 June 2016

Progress

David Cameron appeared on a BBC Question Time special
last night and I reckon he got a shock. Despite assembling a balanced audience
of Remainers and Leavers the questions were generally hostile. Even the
Remainers were pissed off at the lack of a positive vision for a UK locked into
the EU after the vote. While the Leavers were openly scathing and critical, the
Remainers – the few of them who tried to ask supporting questions – seemed to
be seeking reassurance and replies they could believe. He was wholly
unconvincing and may have done his bit to put the Brexit case back on track.
Let’s hope so

In three days’ time we get the only chance many of us
will ever have to see this country regain its rightful place in the world we
were instrumental in shaping. If we vote to Remain, the divisions within the EU
and within Britain itself will continue. Toynbee et al were dead right to say
that there is a mood of helplessness and despair abroad; this is a direct
result of the unchecked pursuit of a progressive agenda. In the true spirit of
doublespeak ‘progressive’ means the exact opposite of advancement, unless you
see progress towards national oblivion as a good thing.

Progressive means denying your children a decent
education by abandoning what was proved to work and adopting every unproven
faddish tenet of academic pedagogic dogma. Packing the classrooms with flush-cheeked
but semi-literate teaching assistants on minimum wage; providing ‘support’ for
legions of kids with dubious statements of ‘special needs’ when all they need
is a return to discipline and rigour and keeping politics out of the classroom.
Child-centred education has facilitated the emergence of an infantilised population,
taught that they have inalienable rights to a self-centred existence regardless
of the cost to society. Just how many graduates of The Science of Harry Potter
does society really need?

Progressive means being labelled as a racist because you
have pride in your origins; this carries a caveat that it only applies if you
are white and born in Britain. If your origins or heritage are from elsewhere,
then not only is your clinging to your roots admirable, you are considered
brave to do so openly and loudly in the face of so many British people trying
to quietly do the same. Such people as you are bigots and must be shouted down, for
every single one of your opinions and values is worthless when compared with
the opinions and values of ‘diverse’ and ‘vibrant’ multiconfusionism.

Progressive means the pursuit of equality uniformity
at any cost. In the textbook this suggests they would rob the rich and give to
the poor, but in reality the rich are good at hanging on to their gains (all of
which are ill-gotten in progressive folklore). No, it is far easier to make
everybody equally dependent on state largesse by expanding the welfare state to
accommodate not just those who don’t wish to work but also those who do work,
by paying them more in tax credits than they pay in tax, magically conjured by
the economic alchemy of importing ever greater numbers of cheap workers who
also pay less in than they cost the system. Nobody understands how this works,
least of all the experts of David Cameron’s fantasies.

Incidentally, those who have grown rich via the public
sector – the aforesaid experts along with advisors, commentators, heads of
departments, state-aided charities and officials of the Eurocracy – are
honourable heroes of the struggle, who deserve every penny they have been paid
even though such receipts represent a near total loss to the economy. The
progressive system will spend whatever it needs to do in order to maintain the
illusion that Neil Kinnock is a price worth paying for peace, harmony and
contentment, even though said peace, harmony and contentment are his and his
alone.

"I'd like to renegotiate the arrangement of our deckchairs"

So, when you are berated for being a Little Englander.
When you are patronised for not understanding ‘complex’ issues that seem pretty
straightforward to you. When you feel bullied for having an opinion when all
around you are allowed opinions you find distasteful or wrong. When you are
told that you are wrong even as the evidence of your existence is that
the peaceful and tolerant country you used to love is disappearing in front of
your eyes remember that all of this is happening by design and with the
complicity of ‘your’ government. And when today’s Dianafication of Saint Jo in
Parliament is used to accuse you of being complicit in her death, make a
decision to reject the lot of it and vote to Leave on Thursday.